The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-03-03
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
What the Newspapers are Saying OF Me-
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What the Newspapers are Saying OF Men
and Women of Note.
Rossini's ashes have been taken from Paris
to Florence, and monument will be erected
over them
Cr. Allen McI.ane Hamilton, the well known
expert in insanity cases, is n grandson OF Al
exander Hamilton.
Lord Tennyson's eyesight is failing him to
such an extent as to cause serious alarm
among his numerous circle of friends.
Talking of dressmakers, Miss Clara Hunt
ington paid hers S17, 900 last year. How does
that strike yous Civilization is a great thing,
isn't itl
Editor Grady, of the Atlanta Constitution,
is brilliant writer, but an inconsistent
worker. Sometimes he will come to tho Office
and do rs much work in few hours as an
other man will do in q week, and then he will
lay of for month
Senator Jones, of Nevada, has struck no
such rich strealSs of luck as lately represent
ed. He has had no great stroke of fortune.
He has done well in business, but has had
nothing like the success which the numerous
paragraphs printed have attributed to him.
The story is started in the newspapers that
Ben Butler, who hanged Munlford in Now
Orleans for hauling down the American flag
in 1869, found his widow in straitened circum-
stances after the war and secured her good
clerkship in the interior department at Wash
ington.
Mr.. w. II. Beard, the artist, made study
for large picture to be ertitled "The Power
of Death" Weirdly depicted is a half clothed
figure with deaths head, one hand grasping
tiger in the throes of dissolution, the other
a withered tree, while one foot rests on the
prostrate form of dead elephant In the
background, which is desolate and gloomy, isa
| dead lion.
Emperor William, Count Won Moltke, Gen.
| w. s. Harney, U. s. A., and Col. E. G. w.
| Butler of st. Louis, are believed to be tho
| Oldest four military officers in the world.
| Between the last two there Is a good deal of
rivalry as to precedence. Butler went into
the army before Harney--that is, at West
Point. But Harney received his commission
before Butler got his,
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland may be fond
of the New York press, but-she refused to
| be interviewed. Some three months ago. in
answer to an editor proffering his columns
for her use in any way, Miss Cleveland sadly
| and suggestively remarked, IL assure you,
you are quite mistaken if you think that any,
thing could write of myself would be Of in
terest to your readers"
! Miss Grace Howard, daughter of "Joer
Howard, is going to Dakota next month to
| spend two or three years in instructing the
Indians. Miss Howard is an exceedingly tai
| ented woman, with a somewhat strong mind
She has spent some time on the frontier, and
quite strong friendship exists between her
and Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, because
of their sympathies in the same direction
She is now in Montreal with her father.
The death of Nine. Needham and the sale
of her goods at the Hotel Drouet, Paris, make
il plain that the lady shopped industriously
One hundred and fifty day and night chem
ises trimmed with Valenciennes and other
lace, seventy petticoats in silk, muslin, etc
forty pairs of garters, twenty-four corsets,
200 lace handkerchiefs, forty pantalons do
sofe peluche, and 165 pairs of silk stockings
are among the items or the bill of SALE
vivacious correspondent having described
| Miss Matte Mitchell, the daughter of the
senator from Oregon, as she appeared in a
gray plush cloak at the theatre one evening as
resembling "a maltese kitten by moonlight" ("
an admirer of the young lady sent her, With
the printed paragraph, a moonstone carved to
represent the head of kitten with small
emerald eyes, caught in the arms of a crescent
moon made of diamonds Miss Mitchell con-
stantly wears this pin now.
Miss Anna Dickinson is slowly recovering
her health, and friend, writing of her, says:
miss Dickinson has entreaties of plays from
two well known stars for novel from New
York publisher, and for various magazine
articles. She is considering them, but will
decide nothing for few weeks yet, till she is
better. 1 shouldn't wonder il they were de-
clined ultimately, as she will want to carry
out her own chosen projects as soon as she Is
well again. Boston Traveller.